[Ted Craven]

Thanks Dick (kahunab) for posting this. For those who don't know him, Dick has been part of the Methodology for a long time and is currently mentoring a few people in RDSS and Methodology 'best practices'. He's a retired teacher and has expressed an interest in demonstrating various basic concepts to the Methodology using RDSS. This was his first 'lesson' in what I understand will hopefully be an ongoing series.

Regardless of the mutuel which, agreed, was rather abnormal - it does illustrate a concept which the public has a hard time grasping: the Early/Late bias and an extreme example of when too much Early Pressure ends up favouring Late running and Late energy disbursing horses who are not otherwise normally 'blessed' with a lot of 'Total Energy' (or ability to run to the fastest Final Time Speed Ratings).

Ted